Welles, Orson (director, starring); Nicolas Tikhomoroff (photographer); William Shakespeare (play); Jeanne Moreau, John Gielgud, Margaret Rutherford, Marina Vlady (starring)Orson Welles and John Gielgud on the set of "Chimes at Midnight" (Original still photograph) Wengen, Switzerland: Alpine Films, 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Orson Welles and John Gielgud on location in Spain for the shooting of "Chimes at Midnight" in 1965. Shot and struck by noted photographer Nicolas Tikhomoroff, with his rubber stamp and the stamp of his Parisian agency, V.I.P., on the verso."Chimes at Midnight," Welles' third of three legendary Shakespearean adaptations and last masterpiece, is based on his early play "Five Kings," which condensed Shakespeare's War of the Roses cycle into one story. Welles produced the play in New York in 1939 but the opening night, during which Part 1 was performed, was a disaster, and Part 2 was never staged. He revamped the show and revisited it in 1960, again without success. The later production became the basis for this film, in which Welles plays Falstaff."Chimes at Midnight," as with nearly all of Welles' efforts as a director, was plagued by financial and logistical problems, shot with nearly no budget, and received no promotion and a very limited release. Original photographs from the set are rare.Nominated for the Palme d'Or, and winner of two other awards at Cannes in 1966.9.5 x 13.75 inches. Near Fine. In a lovely museum-quality frame with archival UV glass.

Ruth RendellTo Fear a Painted Devil John Long, London 1965 - HARDBACK - The book is in very good condition, free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. There is light foxing to the page block, but the inner pages are clean and fresh. The binding is tight with no pushing to the spine tips. The dust wrapper is in very good or better condition with a touch of nibbling to the spine tip. The spine is free of any fading, with the wrapper presenting as a clean example, correctly priced at 15s.net. The authors scarce second novel. [Attributes: First Edition]

Vonnegut Jr., KurtGod Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of Jack Kerouac, with his notes in his hand on the front free endpaper. There are four lines of notes with page numbers corresponding with the text. Additionally this copy is signed by Kurt Vonnegut in a contemporary hand on the same page. An exceptional association copy, as there were probably no two authors of the 1960s whose work was more relevant, both reflecting and informing it, to the social ferment that was profoundly changing the United States than Kerouac and Vonnegut. Very good in a bright dust jacket with light wear. Rare and desirable. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is author's fifth novel and comic masterpiece. "A brilliantly funny satire on almost everything" (Conrad Aiken). It was adapted as a musical in 1979, marking the first collaboration of composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman.

Michener, James A The Source Random House, New York, 1965. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by author. Limited edition, #37 of 500, signed & numbered by Michener on colophon, which states 'Of the first edition of The Source five hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.' Slipcase also numbered on corner. Page base and fore-edge faintly foxed, top page ridge (dyed red by publisher) unaffected, slipcase edges and rear panel lightly foxed, top edge more so. 1965 Hard Cover. 909 pp. 8vo. Maps on endpapers, and following text. Black cloth, gilt titles, red interlocking circle design on spine, red top page ridge. "James Michener sweeps us back through time to the very beginnings of the Jewish faith, thousands of years ago. Through the predecessors of four modern men and women, we experience the entire colorful history of the Jews, including the life of the early Hebrews and their persecutions, the impact of Christianity, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition, all the way to the founding of present-day Israel and the Middle-East conflict." CONTENTS: The Tell; The Bee Eater; Of Death and Life; An Old Man and His God; Psalm of the Hoopoe Bird; The Voice of Gomer; In the Gymnasium; King of the Jews; Yigal and His Three Generals; The Law; A Day in the Life of a Desert Rider; Volkmar; The Fires of Ma Coeur; The Saintly Men of Safed; Twilight of an Empire; Rebbe Itzik and the Sabra; The Tell.

Hansberry, Lorraine; Robert NemiroffThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window New York: Random House 1965 - 8vo., green boards and black cloth lettered in gilt; a gorgeous copy, lacking dust jacket. First edition, with a foreword by John Braine and an introduction by Robert Nemiroff, who, according to the LHLT, first produced "The Sign" in 1964, and subsequently led the fight&#151;joined by hundreds of the nation&#146;s foremost artists and public figures&#151;that transformed Hansberry's play from an initial commercial &#147;failure&#148; into a Broadway legend, with a permanent place in American drama. A presentation copy, inscribed by Nemiroff to the playwright William Gibson and his wife: "Dearest Bill and Margaret - Inevitably you are in these pages: two of the `fools' who helped to prove again why the author had the confidence to believe and write as she did. In deepest gratitude, Bob Nemiroff, 5/26/65," on the front endpaper. Nemiroff, who was Hansberry's husband and co-producer of "The Sign," included a letter of praise from fellow playwright Gibson in his eulogist introduction to the play, which openly briefly until his wife's untimely death. A significant presentation copy. DGC: a.p.o [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

FORD, GeraldPORTRAIT OF THE ASSASSIN New York: Simon & Schuster, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine, bright dustwrapper which seems to have been trimmed slightly as it is slightly smaller than the book. The first and, at least to that point, the only book about JFK's assassination by a member of the Warren Commission, written while Ford was still a member of Congress. SIGNED by the future President on the front endpaper.

Truman CapoteIn Cold Blood Random House, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Random House, New York 1965. First Edition / First Printing. Stated First Printing, no additional printings. Red cloth boards. Jacket priced at $5.96 and 1/66 on the dust jacket. Signed by Truman Capote on a tipped in page after the endpaper. The Signature is Guaranteed Authentic. Book Condition: Near Fine, clean boards, tight spine. Clean pages, soft shelf wear, light spots at the page edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, shelf wear, age toning. Spots on the jacket, short tears. Wrapped in a new mylar cover.

O'CONNOR, Flannery.Everything That Rises Must Converge. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965 - Octavo. Original light blue boards with dark blue cloth spine, titles to spine in white, grey endpapers, top edge blue, others trimmed. With the dust jacket. A couple of minor bumps to edges of rear board. Otherwise a fine copy in a lightly toned jacket with slightly rubbed extremities. First edition, first printing of this posthumously published collection of nine short stories. [Attributes: First Edition]

DICK, Philip K The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch New York: Doubleday and Company,, 1965. Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine black. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the jacket with lightly rubbed extremities. First edition, first printing. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965. With the publisher's review slip laid in.

Kosinski, JerzyThe Painted Bird. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed on the half title page, "with every best wish, cordially, Jerzy Kosinski Sept. 1975." Fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips to the spine. The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Kosinski's story follows a dark-haired, olive-skinned boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, as he wanders alone from one village to another, sometimes hounded and tortured, only rarely sheltered and cared for. Through the juxtaposition of adolescence and the most brutal of adult experiences, Kosinski sums up a Bosch-like world of harrowing excess where senseless violence and untempered hatred are the norm. Through sparse prose and vivid imagery, Kosinski's novel is a story of mythic proportion, even more relevant to today's society than it was upon its original publication. "A powerful blow on the mind because it is so carefully kept within the margins of probability and fact" (Arthur Miller).

CAPOTE, TrumanIN COLD BLOOD Random House (1965), New York - INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to his lawyer on the first blank: "for that admirable attorney/Elbert Robinson/from his client and friend/Truman Capote." Capote's masterpiece, a trendsetting book that opened a floodgate of "nonfiction" novels that has yet to abate. Made into a movie starring Robert Blake. Covers slightly bowed; tape stains to verso of rear endpaper where newspaper clipping, now loose, was once affixed. Mild soiling and light wear to the dustwrapper which has light tape stains to the corners and slightly darker stains to the inside flaps. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Capote, TrumanIn Cold Blood. The New Yorker Magazine, New York 1965 - Four issues of the New Yorker of Capote&#146;s In Cold Blood, which is where it was originally published. Octavo, bound in half cloth. Signed by Truman Capote. In near fine condition. Rare. "Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. In Cold Blood established Capote as the "herald of a new genre, &#145;the non-fiction novel,&#146; which recognizes the convergence of fiction and fact in times of outrage, the insane surrealism of daily life" (Hart, 122; Allen, 247). "The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence . . . harrowing" (The New York Review of Books). [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Chagall, Marc1965 Chagall Le Cirque D'Izis Book 1965 - "Chagall Le Cirque D'Izis" by Marc Chagall, Unsigned Book printed in 1965. The overall is size of the Book is 14 x 10 inches. The conditon of this piece has been graded as A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling. Here is some supplemental information about the Book: 1965 Andre Sauret , Monte Carlo. 1st Edition, 171 pages. Hardcover in dust jacket and plastic protector. Text in French by Jacques Prevert. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Burke, James LeeHalf of Paradise Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press, Boston 1965 - Near fine, first edition book in very good plus dust jacket. Remainder mark on upper edge, else book would be fine. Dust jacket spine has small chips/creases at head and tail; front fore-edge corners are lightly rubbed. Additional photos available at your request. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

McCARTHY, CormacThe Orchard Keeper Random House, New York 1965 - Uncorrected proof. Light gray printed wrappers. Faint dampstain along the edge of the front wrap, and very faintly in the bottom margins of pages. Advance issue of the author's first book. Despite a strong following among literary cognoscenti, McCarthy remained obscure for years until he finally left Random House in the late 1980s and Knopf's publicity department helped propel him into the first rank of American authors with *All the Pretty Horses*. Very scarce. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

Chagall, Marc1965 Lithographies de l'Atelier Mourlot Mourlot Book 1965 - Lithographies de l'Atelier Mourlot" by Marc Chagall, Unsigned Book printed in 1965. The overall is size of the Book is 10 x 7.5 inches. The conditon of this piece has been graded as A: Mint. Here is some supplemental information about the Book: 1965 Mourlot, Paris. By Jean Adhemar. Original lithographs by Picasso, Matisse, Calder, Buffet, Giacometti, Chagall, Miro, etc.He had two basic reputations, writes Lewis: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk."When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is [Attributes: Soft Cover]

Visconti, Luchino, a cura di Pietro BianchiVaghe stelle dell'orsa . . . [inscribed and signed by Visconti] Rocca San Casciano: Cappelli editore, 1965. Hardcover. 202p., introduction, script, credits, shooting schedule, illustrated with glossy b&w plates from film stills, text in Italian, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped lightly-edgeworn dj with closed tears, personal inscription in Italian signed by Visconti dated Roma 1965 (year of publication) Dal soggetto al film: Collana cinematografica diretta da Renzo Renzi #34. The film script and a history of the filming with stills of the the Visconti film "Sandra of theThousand Delights" ("Sandra" in the US) inscribed and signed by the writer/director who had just filmed "The Leopard" This starred Claudia Cardinale. Visconti was openly gay and his last partner was Helmut Berger

Herbert, Frank DUNE Philadelphia:: Chilton Books. (1965).. First edition of this sci-fi highspot. When the duke is assassinated, his son leads desert warriors to free them from the rule of the galactic emperor. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel; number 48 in Pringle's 100 Best Science Fiction books; and made into the 1984 David Lynch film featuring Sting. Mild vertical crease to spine, front board very slightly shaken, still near fine with only a few small soiled spots; in bright, clean dust jacket with professional repair to shallow chips on spine ends and corners. A nice copy. .

WATANABE, SumiharuFace of Washington Square Hashimoto Yuyudo, Tokyo, Japan 1965 - First edition. Softcover. One of the more under appreciated Japanese photography books of the era. Watanabe was one of the few Japanese photographers to travel to the U.S. and turn his camera on the 60's scene. He captured an optimism that is so often missing from many of his contemporaries work. A close to near fine copy in photo-illustrated wrappers with slight bumping to the top and bottom corners and some very negligible wear with a near fine obi that has a small tear to the spine in a close to near fine printed that cardboard slipcase that has some splitting to the top corner. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper by Watanabe in English and Japanese. A very nice copy and uncommon signed. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964).The Man With the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape. 1965., 1965. First Issue, Second State, Binding A in Excelin material without gilt-stamped gun motif and stamped in Nuvap (gilt) to the spine. SIGNED BY ROGER MOORE with added 'Best wishes' and '007' motif. Octavo, pp.221. Black cloth-effect paper over boards, green endpapers, in pictorial dust-wrapper. Very fine indeed, in a custom-made leather clamshell. A truly stunning copy, with half-title page signed by Moore, who played James Bond in the 1974 film adaptation. One of just 23,203 copies in this binding from a print run of 81,890 copies. Gilbert A13a (1.2)

Alighieri, DanteRime per la Donna Pietra Verona: Le Rame, 1965. Arduini, Francesco. Folio. 48pp. One of 125 copies, signed by the artist, Francesco Arduini. Illustrated with thirty striking linocuts by Francesco Arduini. Designed by Giovanni Mardersteig, one of the finest Italian printers of the twentieth century, and printed on handmade paper at the Stamperia Valdonega. The text is derived from the version established by scholar Michele Barbi and edited by Gianfranco Contini. Introduction by Gianlorenzo Mellini. Quarterbound in vellum with green block-printed paper over boards, gilt title to spine. Mint.

Capote, TrumanIN COLD BLOOD Random House, New York 1965 - Book condition is Very Good+; with a Very Good+ dust jacket. Boards slightly bowed, small smudge to bottom page edges. Text is clean and unmarked. First Printing is stated. This is the first issue dust jacket, with the "1/66" code on the front flap and "Publishers of the American College Dictionary and the Modern Library" on the rear flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

[GOREY, Edward ] "PHYPPS, Hyacinthe The Recently Deflowered Girl. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, , 1965. The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial boards. Illustrations throughout by Edward Gorey. Corners and ends of spine lightly rubbed, light soiling to boards. A very good copy. First edition, first printing. A collection of pseudo-romantic advice that claims to have "helped a generation of girls over the threshold to womanhood." A very uncommon Gorey title.

FLEMING, Ian The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape,, 1965. Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine bronze, green and white endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the unclipped jacket with toned spine, lightly rubbed extremities. First edition, first impression, second state, binding B, without the gun design on the front board. The twelfth James Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun was, like many 007 titles, written while Fleming was at Goldeneye, his Jamaican hideaway.

Mann, Thomas; Burke, Kenneth (translator); [Knopf, Alfred]Death in Venice New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Tall octavo, original red cloth stamped in black and gilt, patterned endpapers, original unclipped typographic dust jacket, original striped paper slipcase. Illustrations in text printed in red. Light offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps, light edgewear to slipcase. Striking edition of Thomas Mann's fable of passion and decay, first published in German in 1913, translated into English by the philosopher Kenneth Burke: "Loneliness, strangeness, and the joy of a deep belated intoxication encouraged him and prompted him to accept even the remotest things without reserve or shame -- with the result that as he returned late in the evening from Venice, he stopped on the second floor of the hotel before the door of the boy's room, laid his head in utter drunkenness against the hinge of the door, and for a long time could not drag himself away despite the danger of being caught and embarrassed in such a mad situation." This special edition, designed by George Salter, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Alfred A. Knopf's Borzoi Books. This copy is inscribed by Knopf to fellow publisher Storer Lunt, head of W.W. Norton: "It is a pleasure to inscribe this copy of a favorite novelette by a favorite author for my dear friend Storer Lunt / Alfred A. Knopf / New York / 1966." A near-fine copy of a modern classic, with an excellent literary association.

MATTHIESSEN, PeterAt Play in the Fields of the Lord [Inscribed Association Copy] NY: Random House. (1965). His fourth novel, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1966 and filmed nearly thirty years later. This copy is inscribed by Matthiessen to his parents: "For Mom & Dad/ Much love/ Pete." A tale of various Americans with widely divergent aims whose actions all have unintended effects on a tribe of Stone Age Amazonian Indians. This was the first fictional treatment of one of the themes that has dominated Matthiessen's writings, both fiction and nonfiction, over the last 30 years -- the impact of Europeans on the environment and on the indigenous cultures living in relative harmony with it, from a perspective that combines the political, cultural and spiritual. Foxing to page edges and endpages, staining to boards; at best a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover.

(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, EdwardSOME LOS ANGELES APARTMENTS (RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward. SOME LOS ANGELES APARTMENTS. Los Angeles: Self-Published, 1965. First Edition 1/700. 12mo. Printed Wrappers with Glassine. Artist's Book. Near Fine./Near Fine.. np (48pp), 34 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Some Los Angeles Apartments" is Ed Ruscha's third artist book - a wry yet heartfelt photographic survey of the subtle beauty of the post-war Southern California rental property construction boom. A bright, most handsome example of the uncommon 1965 first edition (entry B3 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999") limited to seven hundred unnumbered copies whose vintage glassine wrapper shows some typical minor age patination along with a few tiny closed tears and missing chips along the extremities and heel of the spine. All in all, this is an exceptional example of this important little gem that is often confused with the 1990 Whitney Museum exhibition catalogue of virtually the same title. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 024780

Sim, Alistair (director); Michael Gilber (writer); Peter Copley, Rachel Roberts, Hugh Latimer, Garry Marsh (starring)A Clean Kill (Original script for the 1959 British play, Dana Andrews' copy) New York: Clifford Hayman, 1965. Draft script for the 1959 British play. Copy belonging to Dana Andrews, from Clifford Hayman, the producer for the play in London, with a mimeographed letter signed by Hayman, dated August 25, 1965, suggesting Andrews' production company bring the play to the US for American audiences, and that Andrews have the lead role. Accompanying the letter is a page of London reviews, dated 1959, and a separate page detailing Hayman's theatre background. A whodunit with a surprising twist. Charles Reese is a research chemist living in South London who has formed his own company to promote his invention of a new cleaning fluid, constantly battles with his alcoholic wife, and has a fondness for his pretty, secretly homicidal laboratory assistant. Kabatchnik also states that the play opened at the Pavilion Theatre in 1959, moved to London's Criterion Theatre, ran for 140 performances, and was adapted to television in 1961, airing on the "BBC Sunday-Night Play" series (Season 3, Episode 1). The play would see American release in 1962, a full three years before Hayman sent this script to Dana Andrews for consideration. Michael Gilbert's other suspense plays include "The Bargain" and "The Shot in Question."Black wrappers. Title page present, undated, with a credit for writer Gilbert. 125 leaves, with last leaf of text numbered 3-33 (Act 3, Page 33), and three laid-in pages (letter, reviews, Hayman background). Mimeograph. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound with two silver brads.Kabatchnik, Blood on the Stage 1950-1975, p. 322.

Haskins, SamCowboy Kate & Other Stories London: Bodley Head, 1965. First edition. Large quarto. original cloth Signed and dated by Sam Haskins in 2003. Very good in a very good dust jacket. When photographer Sam Haskins published his most famous book, Cowboy Kate and Other Stories, in 1964, it was a pioneering work, blending an extended visual narrative with an artful use of black-and-white tones and subtly erotic, peek-a-boo nudity. First published in Europe, the book sold out several international editions.

Annakin, Ken (director); Philip Yordan, Milton Sperling, John Melson (screenwriters); Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews (starring)Battle of the Bulge (Original screenplay for the 1965 film, Dana Andrews' copy) Madrid, Spain: Warner Brothers, 1965. Revised draft script for the 1965 film. Actor Dana Andrews' working copy, with his name label on the front wrapper, and name in holograph ink on two pages. From Andrews' estate, with a letter of provenance from Andrews' daughter, Katharine Smith. Script printed in Spain, where much of the film was shot on location, with English text.One of the most ambitious films about World War II made during the 1960s, an epic story that details the events leading to the title confrontation, the bloodiest battle that the US fought and one of the key turning points in the war.Blue studio wrappers with die-cut window. Title page present, dated Feb. 15, 1965, with credits for screenwriters Yordan and Sperling. 180 leaves, with last leaf of text numbered 166. Mechanically reproduced, with blue, off-white, and eye-rest green revision pages throughout, with one laid-in carbon page, dated variously between 2/15/65 and 5/17/65. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three gold brads.Davenport, pp. 24-26.

Fleming, IanThe Man With The Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, first state with the golden gun embossed on the front boards. Octavo, original black boards. An excellent near fine example with the gilt bright and in fine condition in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. The publisher set out to publish the embossed gun but the cost proved prohibitive to continue, so the gilt-stamping was ceased, and the remaining copies were published with plain front boards. "This issue with the golden gun on the casing is the rarest, by far, of the Bond books. There are certainly fewer than the 290-odd of the signed limited edition of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The Cape archives do not reveal how many copies were produced with the golden gun stamping. Copies tend to turn up most frequently in the extremities of the British Commonwealth, e.g., South Africa, Kenya, Australia and New Zealand" (Biondi & Pickard, 50). A very bright example of the rare first state binding. Made into the 1975 film of the same title starring Roger Moore as Bond, with an all-star cast which included Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams and Hervé Villachaize.

BRITTAIN, Vera.Envoy Extraordinary. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd,, 1965. A study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to modern India. Octavo. Original blue-green boards, spine lettered in silver, top edge green. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece from a portrait of Pandit by Edward Halliday. Two laid-in typed letters signed laid in. An excellent copy in the dust jacket slightly soiled, creased and nicked on the spine. Letters both in excellent condition. First edition, first impression. A significant presentation copy, inscribed by the author "For dearest Ruth - with love as always from Vera, August 1965" on the front free endpaper, together with two typed letters (signed "Vera") to Ruth Gage-Colby in New York, dated 29th December 1964 and 19th January 1965. Ruth Gage-Colby (née Gage, 1899-1984) and her husband Woodard, a paediatrician at the University of Minnesota, volunteered with the St Paul Resettlement Committee in the Second World War, taking in both of Brittain's young children: Shirley (later Williams) and John Brittain-Catlin. In the first letter Brittain explains that she has had to ask her American friends to provisionally accept a copy of Envoy Extraordinary in lieu of a Christmas present ("I was finishing the book up to Christmas Eve"), discusses the question of illustrations ("I certainly do not want it to look like an illustrated magazine") and alludes to a reconciliation between Gage-Colby and "Wood"; a lengthy holograph postscript is devoted to Shirley, who "is off to India on Jan. 8 with a Parliamentary delegation … They will only be away ten days as they have to be back for the opening of Parliament on Jan - 19. Her life during the past few weeks has been like my own in the months that followed the publication of Testament of Youth. Everyone asks her to do things; she is deluged … The spoiled one is Rebecca, who gets maximum attention from her devoted father!" (i.e. noted moral philosopher Bernard Williams, whom Shirley married in 1955). The second letter continues the discussion of illustrations, with Brittain returning a photograph of Pandit sent to her by Gage-Colby, and confirms the author as the proud mother of a successful politician: "You may be interested to know that Shirley is just back from a very adventurous ["interesting" crossed out] trip as a member of a Parliamentary Delegation. They went to Delhi for a meeting of the unofficial International Affairs Committee and she was invited to come back via Moscow by the Indian Ambassador there, Mr. Kaul, with whom we became very friendly when he was Mrs. Pandit's colleague as Deputy High Commissioner in London … I gather that Mr. Kaul took her all over Moscow and put her up at the Indian Embassy where at least she would be warm". Brittain's effusive account of her daughter's activities stands in contrast to the complete absence of any reference to her son, John, whose memoir, Family Quartet (1987), detailed "his often tempestuous relationship with his mother", though both he and Shirley "seemed ultimately much closer to their father than their mother. Her dedication to causes and her career as writer often made her seem remote" (ODNB). An important association copy, richly enhanced by two letters shedding light on Brittain's family relationships and and containing a notable allusion to Testament of Youth, her highest achievement as a writer.